Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 2.9 times smaller than Italy.

Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 34.18% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~58.9 million people (58.5 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Italy vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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