Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 4.5 times smaller than Mexico.

Mexico is approximately 1,964,375 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 22.31% the size of Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of Mexico is ~129.2 million people (88.7 million fewer people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mexico vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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