Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 4.3 times bigger than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 326% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (40.1 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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