Country size comparison

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Malta is about 1,387 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.07% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (40.0 million fewer people live in Malta).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Malta uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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