Chad is about 9 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, making Chad 787% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (14.9 million more people live in Chad).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Chad uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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