Country size comparison

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Jordan is about 1.6 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Jordan is approximately 89,342 sq km, making Jordan 61.74% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (8.0 million more people live in Jordan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Jordan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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