Country size comparison

compared to

Maryland is about 65 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 1.54% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (81.0 million fewer people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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