Country size comparison

compared to

Iraq is about 2.1 times smaller than Nigeria.

Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 47.45% the size of Nigeria. Meanwhile, the population of Nigeria is ~225.1 million people (184.6 million fewer people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nigeria vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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