Country size comparison

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Hong Kong is about 1,488 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.07% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (79.5 million fewer people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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