Country size comparison
Iran
compared to
Afghanistan
Iran is about 2.5 times bigger than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, making Iran 153% larger than Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (48.4 million more people live in Iran).
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This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Iran
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