Country size comparison

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Palau is about 3,591 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Palau is approximately 459 sq km, making Palau 0.03% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (86.7 million fewer people live in Palau).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Palau uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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