Country size comparison

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Niger is about 9 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, making Niger 776% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (21.4 million more people live in Niger).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Niger uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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