Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 2.8 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 35.34% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (19.7 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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