Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 194 times bigger than Tonga.

Tonga is approximately 747 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 19,271% larger than Tonga. Meanwhile, the population of Tonga is ~105,517 people (2.9 million more people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tonga vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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