Country size comparison

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Tanzania is about 2.2 times bigger than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, making Tanzania 116% larger than Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (23.4 million more people live in Tanzania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Tanzania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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