Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 5 times smaller than Yemen.

Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 19.51% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (30.6 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Yemen vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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