Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 16 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 6.33% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (29.8 million fewer people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Switzerland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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