Cook Islands is about 1,656 times smaller than Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, while Cook Islands is approximately 236 sq km, making Cook Islands 0.06% the size of Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, the population of Zimbabwe is ~17.0 million people (16.9 million fewer people live in Cook Islands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Zimbabwe vs. Cook Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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