Country size comparison

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Yemen is about 1.2 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 82.8% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~19.7 million people (22.1 million more people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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