Country size comparison
compared to
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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