Country size comparison

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Djibouti is about 27 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 3.64% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (11.4 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Djibouti uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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