Country size comparison

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Cyprus is about 16 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Cyprus is approximately 9,251 sq km, making Cyprus 6.39% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Cyprus).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Cyprus uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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