Country size comparison
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Cabo Verde is about 29 times smaller than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Cabo Verde is approximately 4,033 sq km, making Cabo Verde 3.4% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (20.2 million fewer people live in Cabo Verde).
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