Country size comparison
compared to
Thailand is about 1.3 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Thailand is approximately 513,120 sq km, making Thailand 78.67% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (31.3 million more people live in Thailand).
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