Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 9 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 11.67% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (17.7 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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