Country size comparison

compared to

Ireland is about 2.1 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 48.56% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.2 million more people live in Ireland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Ireland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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