Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 1.7 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 57.47% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (22.9 million fewer people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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