South America is about 173 times bigger than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while South America is approximately 17,840,000 sq km, making South America 17,220% larger than Iceland.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. South America uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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