Country size comparison

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Japan is about 1.2 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 86.22% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (83.8 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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