Country size comparison

compared to

Japan is about 2.6 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 161% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (121.2 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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