Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is about 1.4 times smaller than Tanzania.
Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 68.85% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (25.5 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
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