Country size comparison
compared to
Egypt is about 1.5 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 54% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (69.4 million more people live in Egypt).
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