Country size comparison

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Ethiopia is about 1.5 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 67.0% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (26.9 million more people live in Ethiopia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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