Country size comparison

compared to

South Korea is about 17 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 6.05% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (34.9 million fewer people live in South Korea).
This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. South Korea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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