Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 955 times bigger than Palau.

Palau is approximately 459 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 95,394% larger than Palau. Meanwhile, the population of Palau is ~21,695 people (40.4 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Palau vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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