Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is about 2.9 times smaller than Sudan.
Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 35.04% the size of Sudan. Meanwhile, the population of Sudan is ~48.0 million people (9.6 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
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