Country size comparison

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Somalia is about 1.9 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 51.42% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~25.2 million people (5.5 million fewer people live in Somalia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Somalia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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