Country size comparison
compared to
Iceland is about 2.4 times smaller than United Kingdom.
United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 42.28% the size of United Kingdom. Meanwhile, the population of United Kingdom is ~67.8 million people (67.4 million fewer people live in Iceland).
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