Country size comparison

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Kenya is about 4 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, making Kenya 301% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (52.8 million more people live in Kenya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Kenya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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