Country size comparison

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Iran is around the same size as Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 93.67% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (79.6 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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