Country size comparison
compared to
Netherlands is about 16 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km,
while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making
Netherlands 6.37% the size of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people
(20.9 million fewer people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Netherlands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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