Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is about 3 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 33.62% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (27.0 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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