Country size comparison
compared to
Malta is about 458 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making
Malta 0.22% the size of Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(2.6 million fewer people live in Malta).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Malta
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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