Country size comparison

compared to

Madagascar is around the same size as Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, making Madagascar 90.01% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (10.2 million fewer people live in Madagascar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Madagascar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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