Country size comparison
compared to
Italy is about 2.2 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 46.2% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (22.7 million more people live in Italy).
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