Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 7 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 15.29% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (13.5 million more people live in South Korea).
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