Country size comparison
compared to
Minnesota is about 3.2 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, making Minnesota 31.61% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (33.0 million fewer people live in Minnesota).
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