Country size comparison

compared to

Afghanistan is about 2.7 times bigger than Romania.

Romania is approximately 238,391 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 174% larger than Romania. Meanwhile, the population of Romania is ~18.5 million people (19.8 million more people live in Afghanistan).

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