Country size comparison

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Iran is about 16 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 1,502% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (82.4 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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