Iowa is about 9 times smaller than Niger.

Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 11.42% the size of Niger. Meanwhile, the population of Niger is ~24.5 million people (21.4 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of Niger vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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