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).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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