Country size comparison

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Bhutan is about 43 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Bhutan is approximately 38,394 sq km, making Bhutan 2.33% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (85.9 million fewer people live in Bhutan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Bhutan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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