Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is about 26 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 3.81% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (99.7 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
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Moving from Afghanistan to Russia · UN DESA 2020
5,090 people born in Afghanistan live in Russia.
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