Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 5 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 417% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (28.8 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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