Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 4.4 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 22.69% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (9.3 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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