Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 2,189 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km,
while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making
Maldives 0.05% the size of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people
(38.0 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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