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Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water.
Country / dependency % total Asia area in km 2 (mi 2); 1 Russia 29.3%: 13,083,100 (5,051,400) [a]2 China 21.5%: 9,596,961 (3,705,407) [b]3 India 7.4%: 3,287,263 ...
Comparison of proven oil reserves from some widely used sources (billions of barrels, 2021) ... Canada Iran Iraq Russia Saudi Arabia United States Venezuela BP [1 ...
Only about 2,000 oil wells have been drilled in Iraq, compared with about 1 million wells in Texas alone. [149] Iraq was one of the founding members of OPEC. [150] [151] During the 1970s Iraq produced up to 3.5 million barrels per day, but sanctions imposed against Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990 crippled the country's oil sector.
Rank Country (or dependent territory) 2020 projection [1] % of pop. Average relative annual growth (%) [2] Average absolute annual growth [3]Estimated doubling time (years) [4] Official
With an area of 1,648,195 square kilometres (636,372 sq mi), Iran ranks seventeenth in size among the countries of the world. Iran shares its northern borders with several post-Soviet states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, [a] and Turkmenistan. These borders extend for more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi), including nearly 650 kilometres (400 mi) of ...
Previously, the Iranians had outnumbered the Iraqis on the battlefield, but Iraq expanded their military draft, pursuing a policy of total war, and by 1984, the armies were equal in size. By 1986, Iraq had twice as many soldiers as Iran. By 1988, Iraq had 1 million soldiers, giving it the fourth largest army in the world.
While its proven oil reserves of 145 billion barrels (23.1 × 10 ^ 9 m 3) ranks Iraq fifth in the world behind Iran, the United States Department of Energy estimates that up to 90 percent of the country remains unexplored. Unexplored regions of Iraq could yield an additional 100 billion barrels (16 × 10 ^ 9 m 3). Iraq's oil production costs ...