Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 6 times bigger than Ireland.

Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 524% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (35.2 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ireland vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Iraq to Ireland · UN DESA 2020
518 people born in Iraq live in Ireland.
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