Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 7 times bigger than Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 568% larger than Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (17.3 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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