Country size comparison

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Taiwan is about 4 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 24.87% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (20.5 million more people live in Taiwan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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