Country size comparison

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New Caledonia is about 35 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while New Caledonia is approximately 18,575 sq km, making New Caledonia 2.85% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (38.0 million fewer people live in New Caledonia).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. New Caledonia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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