Country size comparison
compared to
Iraq is around the same size as Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 89.8% the size of Turkmenistan. Meanwhile, the population of Turkmenistan is ~5.6 million people (34.8 million more people live in Iraq).
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