Country size comparison

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Finland is about 2.3 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Finland is approximately 338,145 sq km, making Finland 134% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.6 million more people live in Finland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Finland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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