Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 36 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 2.78% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (40.2 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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