Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 2.5 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 39.69% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (88.5 million fewer people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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