Country size comparison
compared to
Ukraine is around the same size as Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Ukraine is approximately 603,550 sq km, making Ukraine 92.54% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (5.2 million more people live in Ukraine).
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