Country size comparison

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Bolivia is about 8 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Bolivia is approximately 1,098,581 sq km, making Bolivia 659% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (9.0 million more people live in Bolivia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Bolivia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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