Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 7 times bigger than South Korea.
South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 554% larger than South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (13.5 million fewer people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
South Korea
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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