Iowa is about 13 times smaller than Sudan.

Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 7.77% the size of Sudan. Meanwhile, the population of Sudan is ~48.0 million people (44.9 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of Sudan vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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