Country size comparison
compared to
Cook Islands is about 2,764 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Cook Islands is approximately 236 sq km, making Cook Islands 0.04% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (38.3 million fewer people live in Cook Islands).
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