Country size comparison

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Iran is about 16 times bigger than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 1,500% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (86.4 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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