Interesting. My gut instinct is that Iran is a small country, but apparently my gut is wrong. It's in the top 10% by population and by area. [1] Of course "large" and "small" aren't well-defined. You could make a case that there are only two "large" countries (China, India) and all the rest are "small."

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...

Most of the world lives in countries about twice the size of Iran or greater.

And most (over 80%) of countries are way smaller, so there's that...

Country size is a heavy tailed distribution. Every country aside from China, India and maybe the US is small.

Even by size, Iran is relatively huge. Iran is larger than France, Germany, and UK combined. For a more visual indicator, see this:

https://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTQ5Mzg4NTQ.MTIxMTA4MzE...

Are you talking about physical size? If so you forgot two of the actual largest countries (Russia, Canada). Brazil and Australia are also bigger than India.