Country size comparison
compared to
New Jersey is about 23 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 4.38% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (31.7 million fewer people live in New Jersey).
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