Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 17 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 6.01% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (27.3 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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