Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 4.7 times bigger than Israel.

Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 370% larger than Israel. Meanwhile, the population of Israel is ~8.9 million people (8.6 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Israel vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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