Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 1.7 times smaller than Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 59.06% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (75.3 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
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