Iowa is about 3.2 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 31.26% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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