Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 3.6 times smaller than Yemen.

Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 27.41% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (27.9 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Yemen vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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