Country size comparison
compared to
New Zealand is about 1.6 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 61.33% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (35.4 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of
Iraq
vs.
New Zealand
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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