Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 1.3 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 75.35% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (38.1 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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