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).
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