Country size comparison

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Gambia is about 58 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 1.73% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (35.9 million fewer people live in Gambia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Gambia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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