Country size comparison
compared to
New Zealand is about 2.4 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 41.22% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (33.3 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
New Zealand
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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