Just a few Seven-STAN Numbers

Alphabetical:  Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Land area (all approximations)

  1. Kazakhstan: 1,000,000 square miles
  2. Pakistan: 339,697 square miles
  3. Afghanistan: 251,773 square miles
  4. Turkmenistan: 188,456 square miles
  5. Kyrgyzstan: 77,182 square miles
  6. Uzbekistan: 172,700 square miles
  7. Tajikistan: 55,251 square miles
 Population (approximations)

  1. Pakistan: 207,862,518
  2. Afghanistan: 36,373,176
  3. Uzbekistan: 32,364,996
  4. Kazakhstan: 18,403,860
  5. Tajikistan: 9,107,211
  6. Kyrgyzstan: 6,132,932
  7. Turkmenistan: 5,851,466
Gross National Product (estimates by the World Bank)

  1. Pakistan: 304,952
  2. Kazakhstan: 159,407
  3. Uzbekistan: 48,718
  4. Turkmenistan: 42,355
  5. Afghanistan: 20,815
  6. Kyrgyzstan: 7,565
  7. Tajikistan: 7,146
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  1. Kazakhstan: 26,319
  2. Uzbekistan: 21,395
  3. Afghanistan: 20,815
  4. Tajikistan: 7,146
  5. Kyrgyzstan: 4,936
  6. Pakistan: 6,893
  7. Turkmenistan: no data