Cote d'Ivoire is about 1.2 times smaller than Montana.

Montana is approximately 376,979 sq km, while Cote d'Ivoire is approximately 322,463 sq km, making Cote d'Ivoire 85.54% the size of Montana. Meanwhile, the population of Montana is ~989,415 people (27.7 million more people live in Cote d'Ivoire).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Montana vs. Cote d'Ivoire uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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