Country size comparison
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Gabon is about 2.4 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, making Gabon 41.04% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (36.0 million fewer people live in Gabon).
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