Afghanistan is about 1.2 times smaller than Turkey.

Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 83.24% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (44.7 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of Turkey vs. Afghanistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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