Country size comparison

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Qatar is about 12 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 8.01% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (538,173 fewer people live in Qatar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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