Country size comparison

compared to

China is about 66 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 6,532% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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