Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 16 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 6.25% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (86.4 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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