Country size comparison

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Iran is about 11 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 1,039% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (83.7 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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