Country size comparison

compared to

Iowa is about 1.2 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 22% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (17.7 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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