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0 pointszimpenfish1mo ago0 comments

> Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine. More than 2x Germany. More than 2x Iraq. More than any country in Europe. About 2/3 of Russia.

According to [0], in 2025 Iran had 86M people. Ukraine had 29M (~33%), Germany (highest in Europe) had 83M (~96%, uh?), Iraq had 46M (~53%), and Russia had 146M (~168% / ~59% reversed).

Wildly, wildly wrong about Germany but not too far off the rest[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

[1] Although if you include Turkey in "Europe", "more than any country in Europe" droops a little because Turkey's 86092168 (99.456%) is basically identical to Iran's 86563000 when it comes to projection and estimation errors.

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cineticdaffodil1mo ago

Also half of the people in iran hate the government or even have a feud with it after it murderd their protesting relatives..

cherryteastain1mo ago

Presumably they meant WW2 Germany.

jabron1mo ago

Germany's population in 1938 was higher. Around 86 million.

lava_pidgeon1mo ago

It was 78 Million

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS-Staat

jabron25d ago

Huh, not sure where I got the 86 number from, because I did check a primary source. Probably a mixup with a later number that included annexed territory.

If you're interested: https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/werksansicht/57050/59/einze...

tda1mo ago

I think the comparisons were referring to land area, but I agree this is not that clear from from the comment

malfist1mo 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.

zimpenfishOP1mo 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.

malfist1mo ago

Sorry, my post was sarcastic. If they were talking about land area, there was no context clues.

zimpenfishOP1mo ago

I 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_dependen...

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cineticdaffodil1mo ago

Also half of the people in iran hate the government or even have a feud with it after it murderd their protesting relatives..

cherryteastain1mo ago

Presumably they meant WW2 Germany.

jabron1mo ago

Germany's population in 1938 was higher. Around 86 million.

lava_pidgeon1mo ago

It was 78 Million

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS-Staat

jabron25d ago

Huh, not sure where I got the 86 number from, because I did check a primary source. Probably a mixup with a later number that included annexed territory.

If you're interested: https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/werksansicht/57050/59/einze...

tda1mo ago

I think the comparisons were referring to land area, but I agree this is not that clear from from the comment

malfist1mo 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.

zimpenfishOP1mo 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.

malfist1mo ago

Sorry, my post was sarcastic. If they were talking about land area, there was no context clues.

zimpenfishOP1mo ago

I 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_dependen...

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