Country size comparison
compared to
China is about 15 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 1,371% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
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