Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 2.4 times smaller than Mongolia.
Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 41.7% the size of Mongolia. Meanwhile, the population of Mongolia is ~3.2 million people (35.1 million more people live in Afghanistan).
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