Country size comparison

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Egypt is about 7 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 592% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (104.7 million more people live in Egypt).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Egypt uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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