Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 6 times bigger than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km,
while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making
Afghanistan 536% larger than Virginia.
Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people
(30.3 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Virginia
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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