Country size comparison

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China is about 81 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 8,000% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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