Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 2.2 times smaller than Norway.

Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 44.69% the size of Norway. Meanwhile, the population of Norway is ~5.6 million people (2.5 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Norway vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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