Country size comparison

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Somalia is about 4.4 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 341% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (9.3 million more people live in Somalia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Somalia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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