Country size comparison
compared to
California is around the same size as Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 92.14% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Iraq
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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