Country size comparison
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Bangladesh is about 4.4 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Bangladesh is approximately 148,460 sq km, making Bangladesh 22.76% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~43.8 million people (131.8 million more people live in Bangladesh).
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