Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.8 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 54.4% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (2.4 million more people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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