Country size comparison

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Iran is about 10 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 9.64% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (55.3 million fewer people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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