Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is about 1.8 times smaller than Colombia.
Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 57.27% the size of Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (10.7 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
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