Afghanistan is about 2.7 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 37.07% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (31.2 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Afghanistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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