Country size comparison
compared to
Equatorial Guinea is about 5 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Equatorial Guinea is approximately 28,051 sq km, making Equatorial Guinea 19.39% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.4 million fewer people live in Equatorial Guinea).
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