South Carolina is about 8 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 11.96% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (33.7 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. South Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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