Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 3.4 times bigger than Denmark.

Denmark is approximately 43,094 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 236% larger than Denmark. Meanwhile, the population of Denmark is ~5.9 million people (2.9 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Denmark vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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