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 ~47.0 million people (7.7 million fewer people live in California).
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