Country size comparison

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Malta is about 5,216 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.02% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (86.3 million fewer people live in Malta).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Malta uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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