Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 2.5 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 40.2% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (37.1 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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