Country size comparison

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Alabama is about 4.8 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, making Alabama 20.61% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (7.6 million fewer people live in Alabama).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Alabama uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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