Country size comparison

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Iran is about 3,591 times bigger than Palau.

Palau is approximately 459 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 358,984% larger than Palau. Meanwhile, the population of Palau is ~21,695 people (86.7 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Palau vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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