Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 5 times smaller than Turkey.

Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 18.47% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~85.9 million people (82.6 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Turkey vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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