Country size comparison

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Belize is about 19 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Belize is approximately 22,966 sq km, making Belize 5.24% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (40.1 million fewer people live in Belize).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Belize uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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