Country size comparison

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Iran is about 9,312 times bigger than District of Columbia.

District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 931,084% larger than District of Columbia. Meanwhile, the population of District of Columbia is ~601,723 people (86.2 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of District of Columbia vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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