Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 8 times smaller than Bolivia.

Bolivia is approximately 1,098,581 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 13.17% the size of Bolivia. Meanwhile, the population of Bolivia is ~12.1 million people (9.0 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Bolivia vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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