Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 1.2 times smaller than Yemen.

Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 83.02% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (9.5 million more people live in Iraq).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Yemen vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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