Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is around the same size as Botswana.
Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km,
while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making
Afghanistan 12% larger than Botswana.
Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people
(36.0 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Botswana
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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