How big is Iraq?
- an example of map comparison.

The idea: You can explore the size of an unfamiliar place by comparing it with a familiar one.

US region: NW N NE (hide)
S SE
Iraq: solid transparent (hide)

The Iraq map should be moving up and down over the US regional map. If it isn't, then my javascript didn't work on your browser -- sorry.

This page was cloned from How big is Afghanistan? - an example of map comparison.

Links

UT Library Online - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - Iraq Maps
CIA World Factbook - Iraq [source of Iraq map]
Google search: map of Iraq

MapQuest - North Eastern US [source of US regional maps]

How big is Afghanistan? - an example of map comparison

Where is China? It is down over there... [looking through the Earth....]

Thanks to MapQuest.com

Comments encouraged - Mitchell Charity <mcharity@lcs.mit.edu> 

Notes:
  There is a few percent error in scale among the maps.
  The original MapQuest US regional S and SE maps were scaled +8% to be of
    more similar scale to the others.
  In the early 90's, Xerox PARC's map server was a nice, flexible, desktop hack.
    It's now N years later, and "here in the future" ... I'm hand scaling map
    images, and trying not to care about projections.
    Surely we can do better than this...?

Doables:
  Propagate transparent map javascript fix for NS4 back to Afghan page.

History:
  2003-Mar-21  Cloned from "How big is Afghanistan".