Country size comparison

compared to

Hong Kong is about 131 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.77% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (4.2 million more people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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