Country size comparison

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Guatemala is about 1.3 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Guatemala is approximately 108,889 sq km, making Guatemala 75.25% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (14.7 million more people live in Guatemala).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Guatemala uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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