Country size comparison

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Brunei is about 286 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Brunei is approximately 5,765 sq km, making Brunei 0.35% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (86.3 million fewer people live in Brunei).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Brunei uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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