Country size comparison
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Iran is about 5 times bigger than New Mexico.
New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 424% larger than New Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of New Mexico is ~2.1 million people (84.7 million more people live in Iran).
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