Country size comparison

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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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