Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 51 times bigger than Samoa.

Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 5,011% larger than Samoa. Meanwhile, the population of Samoa is ~206,179 people (2.8 million more people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Samoa vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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