Country size comparison
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Albania is about 23 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Albania is approximately 28,748 sq km, making Albania 4.41% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (35.3 million fewer people live in Albania).
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