Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 24 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 4.13% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~19.7 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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