Country size comparison
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Washington is about 3.7 times smaller than Somalia.
Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, making Washington 27.03% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (5.7 million fewer people live in Washington).
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