Country size comparison
compared to
Iceland is about 6 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 15.79% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (38.0 million fewer people live in Iceland).
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