Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 9 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 10.69% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (83.4 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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