Country size comparison
compared to
Iraq is around the same size as Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 94.7% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (30.9 million more people live in Iraq).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Iraq
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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