Country size comparison

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Yemen is about 1.2 times bigger than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 20% larger than Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (9.5 million fewer people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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