Country size comparison
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Iceland is around the same size as Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 88.74% the size of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (12.3 million fewer people live in Iceland).
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