Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 6 times bigger than Louisiana.
Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 478% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (33.8 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Louisiana
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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