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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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