Country size comparison

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Botswana is about 2.1 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, making Botswana 46.91% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (18.4 million fewer people live in Botswana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Botswana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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