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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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