Country size comparison
compared to
Christmas Island is about 4,831 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Christmas Island is approximately 135 sq km, making Christmas Island 0.02% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (38.3 million fewer people live in Christmas Island).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Christmas Island
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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