Country size comparison
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Timor-Leste is about 10 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Timor-Leste is approximately 14,874 sq km, making Timor-Leste 10.28% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.6 million fewer people live in Timor-Leste).
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Make 13.9 times more money in Iowa
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