Country size comparison

compared to

Taiwan is about 18 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 5.52% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (14.8 million fewer people live in Taiwan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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