Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 4.5 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making
Afghanistan 351% larger than Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(35.3 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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