Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 2.4 times bigger than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 143% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (33.3 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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