Country size comparison
compared to
Dominican Republic is about 3 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Dominican Republic is approximately 48,670 sq km, making Dominican Republic 33.63% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (7.6 million more people live in Dominican Republic).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Dominican Republic
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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