Country size comparison
compared to
Saudi Arabia is about 1.3 times bigger than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, making Saudi Arabia 30% larger than Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (51.4 million fewer people live in Saudi Arabia).
This to-scale comparison of
Iran
vs.
Saudi Arabia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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