Country size comparison
compared to
Iran is about 1.4 times bigger than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 35% larger than South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (29.2 million more people live in Iran).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Iran
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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