Country size comparison

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Burma is around the same size as Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Burma is approximately 676,578 sq km, making Burma 4% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (19.2 million more people live in Burma).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Burma uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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