Tajikistan is about 4.5 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Tajikistan is approximately 144,100 sq km, making Tajikistan 22.09% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (29.2 million fewer people live in Tajikistan).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Tajikistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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