Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is about 5 times smaller than India.
India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 19.84% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Afghanistan).
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