Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is about 15 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 6.8% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Afghanistan).
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