Country size comparison

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Mali is about 1.9 times bigger than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, making Mali 94% larger than Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (8.4 million more people live in Mali).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Mali uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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