Sao Tome and Principe is about 150 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.67% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.8 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Sao Tome and Principe uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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