Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 3.4 times bigger than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 236% larger than Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (34.2 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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