Country size comparison
compared to
Virginia is about 6 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 15.72% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (30.3 million fewer people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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