Country size comparison

compared to

Pennsylvania is about 6 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, making Pennsylvania 17.8% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (25.6 million fewer people live in Pennsylvania).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Pennsylvania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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