Country size comparison

compared to

Alaska is around the same size as Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 89.88% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (86.0 million fewer people live in Alaska).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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