Country size comparison

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Zimbabwe is about 1.7 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, making Zimbabwe 59.91% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (23.2 million fewer people live in Zimbabwe).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Zimbabwe uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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