Country size comparison

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United Arab Emirates is about 1.7 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while United Arab Emirates is approximately 83,600 sq km, making United Arab Emirates 57.77% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (6.9 million more people live in United Arab Emirates).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. United Arab Emirates uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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