Country size comparison

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Ireland is about 9 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 11.02% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (7.1 million fewer people live in Ireland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Ireland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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