Country size comparison
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Iraq is about 23 times bigger than New Jersey.
New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 2,182% larger than New Jersey. Meanwhile, the population of New Jersey is ~8.8 million people (31.7 million more people live in Iraq).
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