Country size comparison
compared to
Vietnam is about 2 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Vietnam is approximately 331,210 sq km, making Vietnam 50.78% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (65.5 million more people live in Vietnam).
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