Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 1.4 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 71.18% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.7 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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