Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 6 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 16.15% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (12.0 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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