Country size comparison

compared to

Iraq is around the same size as Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 97.34% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (30.0 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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