Country size comparison
compared to
Latvia is about 10 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 9.9% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~43.8 million people (42.0 million fewer people live in Latvia).
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