Country size comparison

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Japan is about 4.4 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 22.93% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (37.5 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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