Country size comparison
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Uganda is about 2.7 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Uganda is approximately 241,038 sq km, making Uganda 36.96% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (7.9 million more people live in Uganda).
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