Country size comparison

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Ireland is about 1.5 times smaller than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 68.23% the size of Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (4.9 million more people live in Ireland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Ireland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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