Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is around the same size as Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 93.58% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~22.2 million people (15.8 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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