Country size comparison

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Croatia is about 8 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Croatia is approximately 56,594 sq km, making Croatia 12.91% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (36.3 million fewer people live in Croatia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Croatia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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