Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 2.1 times smaller than Italy.

Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 48.02% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (58.0 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Italy vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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