Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 5,131 times bigger than Macau.

Macau is approximately 28 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 513,024% larger than Macau. Meanwhile, the population of Macau is ~635,293 people (2.4 million more people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Macau vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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