Iowa is about 3.4 times smaller than Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 29.65% the size of Turkmenistan. Meanwhile, the population of Turkmenistan is ~5.6 million people (2.6 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of Turkmenistan vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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