Country size comparison

compared to

Denmark is about 3.4 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Denmark is approximately 43,094 sq km, making Denmark 29.78% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.9 million more people live in Denmark).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Denmark uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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