Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 3.4 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 29.59% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (39.8 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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