Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 1.4 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 68.74% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~19.7 million people (27.4 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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