Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.4 times smaller than Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan is approximately 199,951 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 72.37% the size of Kyrgyzstan. Meanwhile, the population of Kyrgyzstan is ~6.1 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Iowa).
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