Cabo Verde is about 36 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Cabo Verde is approximately 4,033 sq km, making Cabo Verde 2.79% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Cabo Verde).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Cabo Verde uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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