Country size comparison

compared to

Iowa is about 2 times smaller than Ecuador.

Ecuador is approximately 283,561 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 51.03% the size of Ecuador. Meanwhile, the population of Ecuador is ~17.3 million people (14.2 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ecuador vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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