Country size comparison
compared to
Spain is about 1.3 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, making Spain 77.48% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (8.8 million more people live in Spain).
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