Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 2.5 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 39.57% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (48.4 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
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Moving from Afghanistan to Iran · UN DESA 2020
2,710,601 people born in Afghanistan live in Iran.
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