Country size comparison

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Vietnam is about 2.3 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Vietnam is approximately 331,210 sq km, making Vietnam 129% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (100.8 million more people live in Vietnam).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Vietnam uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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