Country size comparison

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Taiwan is about 46 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 2.18% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (63.2 million fewer people live in Taiwan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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