Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 337 times bigger than Barbados.

Barbados is approximately 430 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 33,551% larger than Barbados. Meanwhile, the population of Barbados is ~302,674 people (2.7 million more people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Barbados vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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