Country size comparison
compared to
Japan is about 2.6 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making
Japan 161% larger than Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(121.2 million more people live in Japan).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Japan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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