Country size comparison

 South Africa
compared to
 Iowa, USA

South Africa is about 8 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 742% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (54.5 million more people live in South Africa). We have positioned the outline of Iowa near the middle of South Africa.
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This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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