Country size comparison

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Mali is about 2.8 times bigger than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making Mali 183% larger than Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (19.7 million fewer people live in Mali).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Mali uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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