Country size comparison

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Romania is about 1.6 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Romania is approximately 238,391 sq km, making Romania 65% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (15.5 million more people live in Romania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Romania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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