Country size comparison

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Maryland is about 25 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 3.97% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (6.6 million fewer people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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