Iowa is about 15 times smaller than Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 6.73% the size of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the population of Saudi Arabia is ~35.4 million people (32.3 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of Saudi Arabia vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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