Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 3.6 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 27.63% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (9.0 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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