Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 14 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 1,344% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (38.3 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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