Country size comparison

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Sudan is about 13 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, making Sudan 1,186% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (44.9 million more people live in Sudan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Sudan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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