Country size comparison
compared to
North Carolina is about 3.5 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 28.78% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (30.9 million fewer people live in North Carolina).
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