Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.2 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 20% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (22.9 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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