Country size comparison

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Mauritius is about 71 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Mauritius is approximately 2,040 sq km, making Mauritius 1.41% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Mauritius).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Mauritius uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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