Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 5 times bigger than Alabama.
Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 396% larger than Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (33.6 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Alabama
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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