Country size comparison

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Somalia is about 1.5 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, making Somalia 67.31% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~70.5 million people (50.9 million fewer people live in Somalia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Somalia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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