Country size comparison

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Portugal is about 4.8 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 21.01% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (30.2 million fewer people live in Portugal).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Portugal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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