Country size comparison
compared to
Sweden is around the same size as Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 3% larger than Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (30.0 million fewer people live in Sweden).
This to-scale comparison of
Iraq
vs.
Sweden
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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