Country size comparison

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Iran is about 17 times bigger than South Korea.

South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 1,553% larger than South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (34.9 million more people live in Iran).
This to-scale comparison of South Korea vs. Iran uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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