Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 8 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 11.87% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (54.5 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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