Country size comparison

compared to

Iowa is about 2.7 times smaller than Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 37.03% the size of Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, the population of Zimbabwe is ~15.1 million people (12.1 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Zimbabwe vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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