Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 1.6 times bigger than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making
Afghanistan 61% larger than California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(1.1 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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