Country size comparison
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Madagascar is about 4.1 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, making Madagascar 306% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (25.1 million more people live in Madagascar).
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