Country size comparison

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Qatar is about 142 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 0.7% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (84.3 million fewer people live in Qatar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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