Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is about 4 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 25.3% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~47.0 million people (40.6 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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