Country size comparison

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Tennessee is about 15 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, making Tennessee 6.48% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (80.4 million fewer people live in Tennessee).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Tennessee uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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