Country size comparison

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Swaziland is about 8 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Swaziland is approximately 17,364 sq km, making Swaziland 12.0% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.9 million fewer people live in Swaziland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Swaziland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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