Country size comparison
compared to
Colombia is about 1.8 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, making Colombia 75% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (10.7 million more people live in Colombia).
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