Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 1.4 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 68.91% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (48.8 million more people live in South Korea).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
South Korea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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