Country size comparison
compared to
New York is about 5 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 18.75% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (19.0 million fewer people live in New York).
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