Country size comparison

compared to

Uruguay is about 3.7 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 27.02% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (34.9 million fewer people live in Uruguay).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.