Country size comparison

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Hong Kong is about 396 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.25% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (33.2 million fewer people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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