Country size comparison

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Iran is about 78 times bigger than El Salvador.

El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 7,733% larger than El Salvador. Meanwhile, the population of El Salvador is ~6.6 million people (80.2 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of El Salvador vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Iran to El Salvador · UN DESA 2020
18 people born in Iran live in El Salvador.
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