Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 4 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 24.91% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.5 million people (39.6 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Iraq to Libya · UN DESA 2020
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