Country size comparison

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Turkey is about 2.1 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, making Turkey 47.54% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~92.4 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in Turkey).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Turkey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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