Country size comparison

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Kenya is around the same size as Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, making Kenya 88.98% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (17.5 million more people live in Kenya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Kenya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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