Country size comparison
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Montenegro is about 10 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Montenegro is approximately 13,812 sq km, making Montenegro 9.55% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Montenegro).
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