Country size comparison

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Mongolia is about 11 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, making Mongolia 981% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (181,508 more people live in Mongolia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Mongolia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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