Country size comparison
compared to
Iran is about 13 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 1,206% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (77.2 million more people live in Iran).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Iran
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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