Country size comparison
compared to
Alaska is about 2.3 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 127% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (37.6 million fewer people live in Alaska).
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