Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 155 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 0.65% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (40.3 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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