Country size comparison

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Maryland is about 26 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 3.88% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (32.6 million fewer people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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