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.

Share this