Country size comparison

compared to

Somalia is about 27 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 3.73% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (129.6 million fewer people live in Somalia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Somalia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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