Country size comparison
compared to
Greece is about 4.9 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Greece is approximately 131,957 sq km, making Greece 20.23% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~43.8 million people (33.4 million fewer people live in Greece).
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