Country size comparison

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New York is about 5 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 19.18% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (7.0 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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