Country size comparison

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Iran is about 15 times bigger than Bulgaria.

Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 1,386% larger than Bulgaria. Meanwhile, the population of Bulgaria is ~6.4 million people (86.0 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Bulgaria vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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