Country size comparison
compared to
Iceland is about 95 times smaller than United States.
United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 1.05% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~337.3 million people (337.0 million fewer people live in Iceland).
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