Country size comparison

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France is about 3 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 33.46% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (18.5 million fewer people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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