Country size comparison
compared to
Iraq is about 1.5 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, making Iraq 67.2% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (2.1 million more people live in Iraq).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Iraq
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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