Country size comparison

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Gabon is about 1.6 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, making Gabon 61.07% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (38.1 million fewer people live in Gabon).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Gabon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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