Country size comparison

compared to

Belgium is about 21 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 4.68% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (26.5 million fewer people live in Belgium).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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