Afghanistan

Facts

What the numbers say about Afghanistan

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 26.4× the size of Afghanistan.
• At 65 people per km², Afghanistan is the 104th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 34°N is drawn about 1.4× too large in area, so Afghanistan looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Afghanistan's main territory stretches about 1,020 km north to south and 1,290 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 652,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 642,000 km², to within 2%.

How Afghanistan measures up

Afghanistan holds 2.1% of the land area and 0.9% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Southern Asia it is the 4th largest of 8.

Where Afghanistan sits

• Afghanistan's centre lies at 33.8°N, 65.9°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 3,760 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 29°N to 38°N, about 1,010 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Afghanistan had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Afghanistan would have 804.3 million people. It has 41.5 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Afghanistan would have 2.4 million people. It has 41.5 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 46.5 million.

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