Country size comparison
compared to
Botswana is around the same size as Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km,
while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making
Botswana 89.19% the size of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people
(36.0 million fewer people live in Botswana).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Botswana
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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