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).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Afghanistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.