Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 25 times bigger than Kuwait.

Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 2,360% larger than Kuwait. Meanwhile, the population of Kuwait is ~3.1 million people (37.4 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kuwait vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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