Country size comparison
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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 ~43.8 million people (11.1 million fewer people live in Madagascar).
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