Country size comparison

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Virgin Islands is about 76 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Virgin Islands is approximately 1,910 sq km, making Virgin Islands 1.32% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.9 million fewer people live in Virgin Islands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Virgin Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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