Country size comparison
compared to
Peru is about 2 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 97% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (6.1 million fewer people live in Peru).
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