Country size comparison
compared to
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 ~43.8 million people (26.9 million fewer people live in Zimbabwe).
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