Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 26 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 3.92% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (84.9 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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