Country size comparison

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Luxembourg is about 56 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Luxembourg is approximately 2,586 sq km, making Luxembourg 1.79% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Luxembourg).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Luxembourg uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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