Country size comparison

compared to

Connecticut is about 52 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, making Connecticut 1.92% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (34.8 million fewer people live in Connecticut).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Connecticut uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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