Country size comparison

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Iran is about 14 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 1,291% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~22.2 million people (70.2 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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