Country size comparison

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Virginia is about 6 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 16.08% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (4.4 million fewer people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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