Country size comparison
compared to
Hong Kong is about 589 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.17% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (31.1 million fewer people live in Hong Kong).
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