New Zealand is about 2.4 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 41.22% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (33.3 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. New Zealand uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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