Country size comparison
compared to
Canada is about 15 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, making Canada 1,431% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~43.8 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Canada).
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