Country size comparison
compared to
Faroe Islands is about 315 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Faroe Islands is approximately 1,393 sq km, making Faroe Islands 0.32% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (40.4 million fewer people live in Faroe Islands).
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