Country size comparison
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Cayman Islands is about 548 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Cayman Islands is approximately 264 sq km, making Cayman Islands 0.18% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Cayman Islands).
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