Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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