Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 72 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 1.4% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (35.2 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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