Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is about 15 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 6.73% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (79.9 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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