Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 3.3 times smaller than Cameroon.

Cameroon is approximately 475,440 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 30.44% the size of Cameroon. Meanwhile, the population of Cameroon is ~29.3 million people (26.3 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Cameroon vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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