Country size comparison
compared to
Nepal is around the same size as Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, making
Nepal 2% larger than Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(27.6 million more people live in Nepal).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Nepal
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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