Country size comparison

compared to

Iowa is about 8 times smaller than Colombia.

Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 12.71% the size of Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (46.0 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Colombia vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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