Country size comparison
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Afghanistan is around the same size as Texas.
Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 96.19% the size of Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~25.1 million people (13.2 million more people live in Afghanistan).
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