Country size comparison

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Algeria is about 3.6 times bigger than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 265% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (5.8 million more people live in Algeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Algeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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