Country size comparison

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Peru is about 9 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 788% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (29.2 million more people live in Peru).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Peru uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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