Country size comparison

compared to

Iraq is around the same size as Spain.

Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 86.73% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (6.7 million fewer people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Spain vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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