Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 1,471 times bigger than Maldives.

Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 146,986% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (40.1 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maldives vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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