Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 2.5 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 39.57% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (48.4 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Iran
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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