Country size comparison

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France is about 1.2 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 86.49% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (55.9 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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