Country size comparison

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Norway is about 2.2 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, making Norway 124% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.5 million more people live in Norway).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Norway uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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