Country size comparison

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Afghanistan is about 6 times bigger than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 533% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (38.0 million more people live in Afghanistan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Afghanistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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