Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is about 31 times bigger than El Salvador.
El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 3,000% larger than El Salvador. Meanwhile, the population of El Salvador is ~6.6 million people (31.8 million more people live in Afghanistan).
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