Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 3.5 times smaller than Spain.

Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 28.63% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (44.1 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Spain vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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