Country size comparison
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Botswana is around the same size as Madagascar.
Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 99.1% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (25.8 million fewer people live in Botswana).
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