Country size comparison

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Colombia is about 8 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, making Colombia 687% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (46.0 million more people live in Colombia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Colombia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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