Tuvalu is about 5,565 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Tuvalu is approximately 26 sq km, making Tuvalu 0.02% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Tuvalu).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Tuvalu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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