Afghanistan is around the same size as Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 2% larger than Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (26.0 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Afghanistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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