Country size comparison

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Maryland is about 17 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 5.78% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (34.7 million fewer people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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