Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 2,140 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.05% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (12.0 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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