Country size comparison

compared to

Iowa is around the same size as Greece.

Greece is approximately 131,957 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 10% larger than Greece. Meanwhile, the population of Greece is ~10.4 million people (7.2 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greece vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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