Country size comparison

compared to

Iowa is about 2.3 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 43.87% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (30.8 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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