Country size comparison

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Somalia is about 1.7 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 57.74% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (101.3 million fewer people live in Somalia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Somalia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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