Country size comparison

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Burundi is about 5 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Burundi is approximately 27,830 sq km, making Burundi 19.23% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (9.7 million more people live in Burundi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Burundi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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