Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 1.5 times bigger than Ireland.

Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 47% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ireland vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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