Iowa is about 7 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 15.28% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (60.8 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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