Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 4 times smaller than Kenya.

Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 24.93% the size of Kenya. Meanwhile, the population of Kenya is ~55.9 million people (52.8 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kenya vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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