Alberta (Canada) is 1.5% larger than Afghanistan.
Area: 652,230 km2 World Factbook
Population: 31,822,848 (July 2014) World Factbook
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in Central Asia and South Asia. It has a population of around 31 million people making it the 42nd most populous country. Wikipedia
Alberta is a province of Canada. With a population of 3,645,257 in 2011 and an estimated population of 4,082,571 as of January 1, 2014, it is Canada's fourth-most populous province and most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces. Wikipedia