Orange County, California is 12 times larger than Irvine, California.
Area: 173 km2 calculated
Irvine is a suburban city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mainly developed by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. Wikipedia
Area: 2,064 km2 calculated
Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 3,010,232 making it the third-most populous county in California, the sixth-most populous in the United States, and it more populous than twenty-one U.S. states. Its county seat is Santa Ana. Wikipedia