Country size comparison
compared to
Iceland is about 1.5 times bigger than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 47% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Iceland).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Iceland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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