Country size comparison

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Iran is about 3 times bigger than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 199% larger than France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (18.5 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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