Country size comparison

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New York is about 13 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 7.42% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (67.4 million fewer people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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