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 ~693,645 people (91.7 million more people live in Iran).
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