Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 5 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 18.68% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (67.9 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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1 people moved from Iceland to France.
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