Country size comparison
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Moldova is about 19 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Moldova is approximately 33,851 sq km, making Moldova 5.19% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (35.1 million fewer people live in Moldova).
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