Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is about 3.3 times smaller than Greenland.
Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 30.11% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~57,792 people (38.3 million more people live in Afghanistan).
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