Country size comparison

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Iran is about 1.3 times bigger than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 33% larger than Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (66.0 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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