Country size comparison

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Brunei is about 21 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Brunei is approximately 5,765 sq km, making Brunei 4.87% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (20.3 million fewer people live in Brunei).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Brunei uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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