Country size comparison
compared to
Somalia is around the same size as Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 97.77% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (26.0 million fewer people live in Somalia).
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