Country size comparison

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Cameroon is about 3.3 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, making Cameroon 229% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (26.3 million more people live in Cameroon).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Cameroon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Iowa is 2.3 times more expensive than Cameroon overall
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