Country size comparison

compared to

Iowa is about 2.2 times smaller than Poland.

Poland is approximately 312,685 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 46.28% the size of Poland. Meanwhile, the population of Poland is ~38.1 million people (35.0 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Poland vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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