Country size comparison

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New York is about 3.6 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 27.9% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (21.1 million fewer people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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