Country size comparison
compared to
Iraq is about 1.5 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 67.2% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~43.8 million people (3.2 million more people live in Iraq).
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