Country size comparison
compared to
Vanuatu is about 54 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 1.87% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~43.8 million people (43.5 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
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