Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
Somalia
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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