Country size comparison

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India is about 23 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, making India 2,172% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.4 billion more people live in India).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. India uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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