Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 4.5 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km,
while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making
Iowa 22.19% the size of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people
(35.3 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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