Country size comparison

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Iraq is about 7 times bigger than Svalbard.

Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 606% larger than Svalbard. Meanwhile, the population of Svalbard is ~2,926 people (40.5 million more people live in Iraq).
This to-scale comparison of Svalbard vs. Iraq uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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