Bulgaria is about 6 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 17.0% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (31.5 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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