Country size comparison
compared to
Somalia is about 5 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km,
while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making
Somalia 405% larger than North Carolina.
Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people
(2.9 million more people live in Somalia).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Somalia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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