Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 5,531 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.02% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (86.4 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Iran
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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