Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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