Country size comparison
compared to
Cyprus is about 70 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Cyprus is approximately 9,251 sq km, making Cyprus 1.42% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (37.1 million fewer people live in Cyprus).
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