State size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1,196 times bigger than San Francisco.
San Francisco (including the city proper only) is approximately 121 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 119,488% larger than San Francisco.
This to-scale comparison of
San Francisco
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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