Country size comparison
compared to
United Kingdom is about 1.8 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, making United Kingdom 55.58% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (27.3 million more people live in United Kingdom).
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