Country size comparison
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Cook Islands is about 613 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Cook Islands is approximately 236 sq km, making Cook Islands 0.16% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.2 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in Cook Islands).
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