Country size comparison
Japan
compared to
Iowa, USA
Japan is about 2.6 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 161% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (121.2 million more people live in Japan).
We have positioned the outline of Iowa near the middle of Japan.
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This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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