Country size comparison

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Burundi is about 4.3 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Burundi is approximately 27,830 sq km, making Burundi 23.49% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (8.1 million fewer people live in Burundi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Burundi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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