Country size comparison

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Belize is about 6 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Belize is approximately 22,966 sq km, making Belize 15.87% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.6 million fewer people live in Belize).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Belize uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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