Afghanistan is about 72 times bigger than Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 7,064% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (35.2 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of Puerto Rico vs. Afghanistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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