Country size comparison

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Taiwan is about 12 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 8.21% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (16.9 million fewer people live in Taiwan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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