Country size comparison

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Greece is around the same size as Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Greece is approximately 131,957 sq km, making Greece 91.19% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.2 million people (7.2 million more people live in Greece).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Greece uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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