Country size comparison
compared to
Norway is about 2 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, making Norway 49.65% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~43.8 million people (38.2 million fewer people live in Norway).
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