Country size comparison

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France is about 1.3 times bigger than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 26% larger than Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (27.8 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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