Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 7 times smaller than Egypt.

Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 14.45% the size of Egypt. Meanwhile, the population of Egypt is ~107.8 million people (104.7 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Egypt vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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