Country size comparison
compared to
Mali is about 9 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making Mali 757% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (17.7 million more people live in Mali).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Mali
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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