Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 25 times bigger than Brunei.

Brunei is approximately 5,765 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 2,410% larger than Brunei. Meanwhile, the population of Brunei is ~478,054 people (2.6 million more people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Brunei vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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