Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 4 times smaller than Botswana.
Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 24.87% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (662,109 more people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Botswana
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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