Country size comparison

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Angola is about 9 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Angola is approximately 1,246,700 sq km, making Angola 762% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (31.7 million more people live in Angola).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Angola uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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