Country size comparison

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Norway is about 2 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, making Norway 50.78% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (6.8 million fewer people live in Norway).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Norway uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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