Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 25 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 4.04% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (25.2 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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