Country size comparison
compared to
Afghanistan is about 1.4 times bigger than Sweden.
Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, making Afghanistan 45% larger than Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (27.9 million more people live in Afghanistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Sweden
vs.
Afghanistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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