Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 26 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 3.81% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (103.7 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Russia
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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