Country size comparison
compared to
Niger is about 2.9 times bigger than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, making Niger 189% larger than Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (16.0 million fewer people live in Niger).
This to-scale comparison of
Iraq
vs.
Niger
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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