Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Somalia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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