Country size comparison

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Taiwan is about 18 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 5.64% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (11.2 million more people live in Taiwan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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