Country size comparison
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Barbados is about 1,517 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Barbados is approximately 430 sq km, making Barbados 0.07% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~43.8 million people (43.6 million fewer people live in Barbados).
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