Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 486 times bigger than Maldives.
Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 48,457% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (2.7 million more people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Maldives
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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