Country size comparison

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Netherlands is about 16 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 6.37% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (20.9 million fewer people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Netherlands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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