Country size comparison
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Tonga is about 873 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Tonga is approximately 747 sq km, making Tonga 0.11% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~43.8 million people (43.7 million fewer people live in Tonga).
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