Country size comparison
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Djibouti is about 28 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 3.56% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (37.4 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
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