Country size comparison
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Solomon Islands is about 23 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Solomon Islands is approximately 28,896 sq km, making Solomon Islands 4.43% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (37.6 million fewer people live in Solomon Islands).
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