Country size comparison
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Luxembourg is about 252 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Luxembourg is approximately 2,586 sq km, making Luxembourg 0.4% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~43.8 million people (43.2 million fewer people live in Luxembourg).
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