Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 10 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 10.13% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (10.5 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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