Country size comparison
compared to
Germany is about 1.8 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, making Germany 54.74% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (46.0 million more people live in Germany).
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