Country size comparison

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Ukraine is about 4.2 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Ukraine is approximately 603,550 sq km, making Ukraine 317% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (40.5 million more people live in Ukraine).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Ukraine uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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