Country size comparison

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Ethiopia is about 1.7 times bigger than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 73% larger than Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (101.3 million more people live in Ethiopia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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