Cabo Verde is about 162 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Cabo Verde is approximately 4,033 sq km, making Cabo Verde 0.62% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (37.8 million fewer people live in Cabo Verde).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Cabo Verde uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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