Iraq

Facts

What the numbers say about Iraq

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 38.8× the size of Iraq.
• At 88 people per km², Iraq is the 77th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 33°N is drawn about 1.4× too large in area, so Iraq looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Iraq's main territory stretches about 921 km north to south and 925 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 437,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 437,000 km², to within 2%.

How Iraq measures up

Iraq holds 1.4% of the land area and 0.8% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Western Asia it is the 4th largest of 19.

Where Iraq sits

• Iraq's centre lies at 33.0°N, 43.8°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 3,670 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 29°N to 37°N, about 920 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Iraq had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Iraq would have 547.8 million people. It has 38.3 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Iraq would have 1.6 million people. It has 38.3 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 31.6 million.

Compare Iraq

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