Country size comparison
compared to
United Kingdom is about 2.7 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, making United Kingdom 37.35% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (29.4 million more people live in United Kingdom).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
United Kingdom
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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