Country size comparison

compared to

China is about 8 times bigger than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 674% larger than Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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