Country size comparison
compared to
United States is about 15 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 1,408% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (299.0 million more people live in United States).
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