Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 1.9 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km,
while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making
Afghanistan 53.5% the size of South Africa.
Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people
(19.2 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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