Country size comparison
compared to
Iran is about 2.5 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km,
while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making
Iran 153% larger than Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people
(48.4 million more people live in Iran).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Iran
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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