Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Niger
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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