Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 1.2 times smaller than Turkey.
Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 83.24% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~85.9 million people (42.0 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
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