Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 39 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 2.56% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (101.6 million fewer people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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