Country size comparison

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India is about 5 times bigger than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, making India 404% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (1.4 billion more people live in India).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. India uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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