Country size comparison

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Brunei is about 57 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Brunei is approximately 5,765 sq km, making Brunei 1.75% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (33.4 million fewer people live in Brunei).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Brunei uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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