Country size comparison
compared to
Russia is about 26 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 2,522% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (103.7 million more people live in Russia).
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