Country size comparison

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Egypt is about 1.6 times bigger than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Egypt is approximately 1,001,450 sq km, making Egypt 57% larger than Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~19.7 million people (98.7 million more people live in Egypt).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Egypt uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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