Country size comparison

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Afghanistan is about 1.7 times bigger than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 73% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (85.9 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Afghanistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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