Country size comparison
compared to
South Africa is about 2.8 times bigger than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 178% larger than Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (17.1 million more people live in South Africa).
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