Country size comparison

compared to

Iowa is about 2.5 times smaller than Germany.

Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 40.53% the size of Germany. Meanwhile, the population of Germany is ~84.3 million people (81.3 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Germany vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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