Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 9 times bigger than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 828% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (33.1 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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