Country size comparison

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Iran is about 1.5 times bigger than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 49% larger than Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (26.9 million fewer people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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