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I think the comparisons were referring to land area, but I agree this is not that clear from from the comment
by tda 6mo ago
I think the comparisons were referring to land area, but I agree this is not that clear from from the comment
- malfist 6mo ago> Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine. More than 2x Germany. More than 2x Iraq Sure, they're talking multiples of land area.
- zimpenfish 6mo ago> Sure, they're talking multiples of land area. But then don't say "people"? Because if you say "has N people" and then "more than 2x Y", no-one is going to go "yes, that's 2x land area" when it was NEVER MENTIONED IN ANY CONTEXT.
- malfist 6mo agoSorry, my post was sarcastic. If they were talking about land area, there was no context clues.
- zimpenfish 6mo agoI don't think they can be because "About 2/3 of Russia" -> Iran is (according to [0]) about 636k mi^2 whilst Russia is 6600k mi^2 or just over 10x the area. (Iran is 4.5x the land area of Germany, 2.7x Ukraine, 3.7x Iraq - sure "2x" works but it's out enough that it doesn't fit with the "land area" claim.) Also Denmark is in Europe and has a land area (including Greenland) 1.3x that of Iran which strictly breaks the "more than any country in Europe" claim. In summary, if it's about land area, it's absolute gibberish. If it's about population, it's mostly accurate. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...