Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 3.4 times bigger than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 241% larger than Malawi.
Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people
(16.5 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Malawi
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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