Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 1.4 times smaller than Belarus.

Belarus is approximately 207,600 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 69.7% the size of Belarus. Meanwhile, the population of Belarus is ~9.4 million people (6.4 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Belarus vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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