Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 5 times bigger than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km,
while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making
Afghanistan 433% larger than New York.
Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people
(19.0 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
New York
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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