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).
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