Country size comparison
compared to
Belarus is about 3.1 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Belarus is approximately 207,600 sq km, making Belarus 31.83% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (28.9 million fewer people live in Belarus).
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