Country size comparison
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Mongolia is about 2.4 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, making Mongolia 140% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (35.1 million fewer people live in Mongolia).
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