Country size comparison

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Botswana is about 4.9 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 391% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (18.4 million fewer people live in Botswana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Botswana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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