Country size comparison
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Panama is about 9 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Panama is approximately 75,420 sq km, making Panama 11.56% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (34.0 million fewer people live in Panama).
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