Country size comparison

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Papua New Guinea is about 3.2 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, making Papua New Guinea 220% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (6.5 million more people live in Papua New Guinea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Papua New Guinea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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