Country size comparison

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Kentucky is about 4.3 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 23.48% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (36.1 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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