Country size comparison

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Iran is about 13 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 1,248% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (67.4 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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