Country size comparison

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Qatar is about 56 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 1.78% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (35.8 million fewer people live in Qatar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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