Country size comparison
compared to
Saudi Arabia is about 15 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, making Saudi Arabia 1,386% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (32.3 million more people live in Saudi Arabia).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Saudi Arabia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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