Country size comparison

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Iran is about 3.1 times bigger than Yemen.

Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 212% larger than Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~41.8 million people (50.6 million more people live in Iran).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Yemen vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Iran to Yemen · UN DESA 2020
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