Country size comparison

compared to

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.
Share
Compare further: Uruguay vs. Iran
Flip Comparison · See true size
See Uruguay on top of Iran
→
Quality of Life Comparison · 11 statistics
Be 88.9% more likely to live below the poverty line in Iran
→
Cost of Living Comparison · 7 categories - 2026 data
Iran is 61.5% cheaper than Uruguay overall
→