Country size comparison

compared to

Iowa is about 19 times smaller than Argentina.

Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 5.2% the size of Argentina. Meanwhile, the population of Argentina is ~46.2 million people (43.2 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Argentina vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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