Country size comparison

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Mali is about 1.9 times bigger than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making Mali 90% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (17.6 million fewer people live in Mali).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Mali uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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