Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 3.8 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 26.24% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.7 million people (65.5 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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