Country size comparison

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Australia is about 12 times bigger than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 1,114% larger than Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (13.8 million more people live in Australia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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