Ethiopia is about 8 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 663% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (110.6 million more people live in Ethiopia).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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