Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 9 times smaller than Chad.

Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 11.27% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (14.9 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chad vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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