Country size comparison

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El Salvador is about 7 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 14.54% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (3.5 million more people live in El Salvador).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. El Salvador uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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