Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 2.8 times bigger than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 178% larger than Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (17.1 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of
Iraq
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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