Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 2.2 times bigger than Latvia.

Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 124% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (1.2 million more people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Latvia vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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