Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 18 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 5.66% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~27.6 million people (19.4 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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