France is about 1.2 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 84.56% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (30.0 million more people live in France).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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