Country size comparison
compared to
Saudi Arabia is about 3.3 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, making Saudi Arabia 230% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Saudi Arabia).
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