Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 16 times bigger than Netherlands.
Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 1,470% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (20.9 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Netherlands
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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