Country size comparison

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China is about 6 times bigger than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 482% larger than Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (1.3 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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