Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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