Country size comparison

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Lesotho is about 14 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, making Lesotho 6.93% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (38.3 million fewer people live in Lesotho).
This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Lesotho uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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