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📏 🇺🇸 Iowa · US state
The whole world, measured in Iowas
London is 11.6 Iowas away. Hover over (or tap) anywhere on the map to see how many Iowas away it is.
Drawing the map…
How we measure
1 Iowa = 557 km (346 mi), the longest straight line you can draw across Iowa. Distances run along the Earth’s surface from the nearest edge of Iowa, so anywhere inside it is 0 Iowas away.
The farthest you can get from Iowa
35.4 Iowas
19,738 km (12,265 mi) away, in the Indian Ocean (Nearest land: French Southern and Antarctic Lands, 1,452 km away). That’s near the exact opposite side of the planet.
Famous cities, in Iowas
| City | Iowas | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2.4 Iowas | 1,355 km |
| United States | 3.8 Iowas | 2,102 km |
| Mexico | 4.3 Iowas | 2,373 km |
| United States | 10.9 Iowas | 6,098 km |
| United Kingdom | 11.6 Iowas | 6,448 km |
| France | 12.1 Iowas | 6,755 km |
| Italy | 14.1 Iowas | 7,853 km |
| Russia | 14.3 Iowas | 7,979 km |
| Brazil | 15.5 Iowas | 8,624 km |
| Argentina | 16.2 Iowas | 8,997 km |
| Japan | 17.1 Iowas | 9,537 km |
| Nigeria | 17.6 Iowas | 9,819 km |
| Egypt | 17.9 Iowas | 9,958 km |
| China | 18.3 Iowas | 10,173 km |
| India | 23.1 Iowas | 12,871 km |
| South Africa | 24.9 Iowas | 13,867 km |
| Australia | 25.4 Iowas | 14,172 km |
More fun in Iowas
- It takes 71.9 Iowas to wrap all the way around the equator.
- A tunnel straight through the middle of the Earth would be 22.9 Iowas long.
- The Moon is 690 Iowas away.