Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.6 times smaller than Romania.
Romania is approximately 238,391 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 60.7% the size of Romania. Meanwhile, the population of Romania is ~18.5 million people (15.5 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Romania
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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