Country size comparison

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Malaysia is about 1.9 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, making Malaysia 51.73% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (21.5 million more people live in Malaysia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Malaysia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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