Country size comparison
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Israel is about 30 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, making Israel 3.36% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~43.8 million people (33.7 million fewer people live in Israel).
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