Country size comparison

compared to

California is about 4.1 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 24.5% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (49.5 million fewer people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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