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