Canada vs Iraq

Canada is 23 times larger than Iraq — 9,984,670 against 438,317 km². Iraq is 1.1 times more populous than Canada — 47,020,774 against 41,651,653 people.

Side by side

Population density

Iraq is 26 times more densely populated than Canada — 107 against 4 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• Different currencies: the Canadian dollar and the Iraqi dinar.
• Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and Asia.

Canada

The second-largest country in the world by total area, and the longest coastline of any — about 202,000 km, more than the rest of the world put together. Canada holds more lake area than every other country combined, and something over two million lakes. Its border with the United States is the longest between any two countries at 8,891 km.

Iraq

The Tigris and Euphrates run the length of the country and meet at Al-Qurnah to form the Shatt al-Arab. The Mesopotamian Marshes at their lower end are among the largest wetlands in western Eurasia. Uruk, on the Euphrates, was one of the first cities in the world.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.