Malaysia is about 2 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 50.57% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (4.5 million fewer people live in Malaysia).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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