Country size comparison

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Botswana is around the same size as Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 91.23% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (10.0 million fewer people live in Botswana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Botswana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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