Country size comparison

compared to

Kuwait is about 25 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 4.07% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (37.4 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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