Country size comparison

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Portugal is about 7 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 14.44% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in Portugal).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Portugal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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