City size comparison

compared to

Oakland is about 716 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Oakland is approximately 202 sq km, making Oakland 0.14% the size of Iowa.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Oakland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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