Country size comparison
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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).
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