Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is about 10 times bigger than Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 910% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (36.5 million more people live in Afghanistan).
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Moving from Afghanistan to Latvia · OECD 2021
3 people moved from Afghanistan to Latvia.
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