Country size comparison

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Burundi is about 16 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Burundi is approximately 27,830 sq km, making Burundi 6.35% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (27.8 million fewer people live in Burundi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Burundi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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