Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 1,471 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.07% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (40.1 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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