Country size comparison
compared to
Iraq is about 2.8 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 35.95% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (17.1 million fewer people live in Iraq).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Iraq
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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