Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 5 times bigger than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 437% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (35.4 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Mississippi
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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