Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is about 11 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 8.94% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (13.9 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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