Country size comparison

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Estonia is about 3.2 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Estonia is approximately 45,228 sq km, making Estonia 31.26% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Estonia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Estonia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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