Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 1.4 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 73.97% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (29.2 million fewer people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Iran
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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