Country size comparison

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Macau is about 5,131 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Macau is approximately 28 sq km, making Macau 0.02% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Macau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Macau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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