Country size comparison

compared to

Romania is about 1.8 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Romania is approximately 238,391 sq km, making Romania 54.39% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (21.9 million fewer people live in Romania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Romania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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