Country size comparison

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Italy is about 2.1 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 108% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.2 million people (55.7 million more people live in Italy).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Italy uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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