Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 4.9 times smaller than Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 20.39% the size of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the population of Saudi Arabia is ~35.4 million people (5.1 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Saudi Arabia vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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