Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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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