Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 8 times bigger than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 736% larger than South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (33.7 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
South Carolina
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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