Bhutan is about 17 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Bhutan is approximately 38,394 sq km, making Bhutan 5.89% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (37.5 million fewer people live in Bhutan).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Bhutan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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