Country size comparison

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Yemen is about 3.1 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 32.03% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (55.8 million fewer people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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