Country size comparison

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Cyprus is about 178 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Cyprus is approximately 9,251 sq km, making Cyprus 0.56% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (85.5 million fewer people live in Cyprus).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Cyprus uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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