Country size comparison

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Botswana is around the same size as Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 89.19% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (36.0 million fewer people live in Botswana).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Botswana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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