Kuwait is about 8 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 12.31% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (21,800 more people live in Kuwait).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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