Country size comparison
compared to
Bangladesh is about 2.2 times smaller than Malaysia.
Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Bangladesh is approximately 148,460 sq km, making Bangladesh 45.01% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~36.0 million people (139.7 million more people live in Bangladesh).
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Moving from Bangladesh to Malaysia · UN DESA 2020
415,717 people born in Bangladesh live in Malaysia.
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