Country size comparison

compared to

Ireland is about 6 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 16.03% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (35.2 million fewer people live in Ireland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Ireland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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