Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 1.3 times bigger than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 31% larger than Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (86.7 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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