Country size comparison

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Iran is about 5,531 times bigger than Maldives.

Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 552,986% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (86.4 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maldives vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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