Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 486 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making
Maldives 0.21% the size of Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(2.7 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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