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).
This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. El Salvador uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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