Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is about 1.9 times smaller than Mali.
Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 52.59% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (17.6 million more people live in Afghanistan).
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Moving from Afghanistan to Mali · UN DESA 2020
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