Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.2 times bigger than Eritrea.
Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 23% larger than Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Eritrea
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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