Country size comparison
compared to
Western Sahara is about 1.8 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, making
Western Sahara 84% larger than Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(2.4 million fewer people live in Western Sahara).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Western Sahara
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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