Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 14 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 7.14% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (80.5 million fewer people live in Eritrea).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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