Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 4.4 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 22.75% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (11.4 million more people live in South Korea).
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