Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.6 times smaller than Somalia.
Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 63.34% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (24.9 million more people live in California).
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