Country size comparison

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Barbados is about 337 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Barbados is approximately 430 sq km, making Barbados 0.3% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.7 million fewer people live in Barbados).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Barbados uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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