Country size comparison

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Mauritania is about 2.4 times bigger than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, making Mauritania 135% larger than Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (36.3 million fewer people live in Mauritania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Mauritania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Mauritania to Iraq · UN DESA 2020
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