Country size comparison
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Sudan is about 2.9 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, making Sudan 185% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (9.6 million more people live in Sudan).
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