Country size comparison
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Nepal is about 4.4 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, making Nepal 22.57% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (7.7 million fewer people live in Nepal).
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