Country size comparison

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Iran is about 13 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 1,164% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~7.0 million people (85.4 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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