Country size comparison

compared to

Iraq is about 1.6 times bigger than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 63% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (35.4 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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