Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 2.4 times smaller than Republic of the Congo.
Republic of the Congo is approximately 342,000 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 42.31% the size of Republic of the Congo. Meanwhile, the population of Republic of the Congo is ~5.5 million people (2.5 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Republic of the Congo
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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