Bulgaria is about 1.3 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 76.63% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (3.8 million more people live in Bulgaria).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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