Country size comparison

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Lebanon is about 42 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Lebanon is approximately 10,400 sq km, making Lebanon 2.37% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~47.0 million people (41.2 million fewer people live in Lebanon).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Lebanon uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Lebanon to Iraq · UN DESA 2020
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