Country size comparison
compared to
Washington is about 3.8 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km,
while Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, making
Washington 26.42% the size of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people
(31.6 million fewer people live in Washington).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Washington
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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