Country size comparison
compared to
Iraq is about 1.2 times bigger than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 16% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (83.8 million fewer people live in Iraq).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Iraq
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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