Country size comparison

compared to

Croatia is about 12 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Croatia is approximately 56,594 sq km, making Croatia 8.68% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (34.2 million fewer people live in Croatia).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Croatia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.