Country size comparison

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Italy is about 2.2 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 46.2% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (22.7 million more people live in Italy).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Italy uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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