Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 2.8 times smaller than Paraguay.

Paraguay is approximately 406,752 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 35.57% the size of Paraguay. Meanwhile, the population of Paraguay is ~7.4 million people (4.3 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Paraguay vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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