South Korea is about 17 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 6.05% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (34.9 million fewer people live in South Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. South Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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