Country size comparison

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Kentucky is about 6 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 16.14% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (8.0 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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