Country size comparison
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New Caledonia is about 24 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while New Caledonia is approximately 18,575 sq km, making New Caledonia 4.24% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (40.2 million fewer people live in New Caledonia).
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