Country size comparison

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Ethiopia is about 2.5 times bigger than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 152% larger than Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (73.2 million more people live in Ethiopia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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