Country size comparison

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Somalia is about 12 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 8.24% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (13.8 million fewer people live in Somalia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Somalia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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