Country size comparison
compared to
Arizona is about 2.2 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km, making Arizona 45.12% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (32.0 million fewer people live in Arizona).
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