Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 21 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 4.8% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (33.9 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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