Country size comparison

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Belgium is about 41 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 2.46% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (8.9 million fewer people live in Belgium).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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