Country size comparison
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Iraq is around the same size as Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 94.7% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (30.9 million more people live in Iraq).
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