Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 2.3 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 44.03% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (37.6 million more people live in Afghanistan).
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