Country size comparison
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Iran is about 10 times bigger than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 856% larger than Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (80.0 million more people live in Iran).
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