Country size comparison

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Somalia is about 2.3 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 43.05% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (11.7 million more people live in Somalia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. Somalia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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