Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 2.2 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 44.64% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.2 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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