Country size comparison

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Somalia is about 5 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 421% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (7.0 million fewer people live in Somalia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Somalia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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