Iowa is about 8 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 13.1% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (110.6 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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