Country size comparison
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Iraq is about 6 times bigger than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 462% larger than South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (35.8 million more people live in Iraq).
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