Country size comparison
compared to
Yemen is about 1.2 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 80.95% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (7.4 million fewer people live in Yemen).
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