Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.6 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 61.92% the size of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people
(1.1 million fewer people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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