Country size comparison

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Afghanistan is about 52 times bigger than Connecticut.

Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 5,098% larger than Connecticut. Meanwhile, the population of Connecticut is ~3.6 million people (34.8 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of Connecticut vs. Afghanistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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