Country size comparison

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Djibouti is about 5 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Djibouti is approximately 23,200 sq km, making Djibouti 19.58% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~22.2 million people (21.0 million fewer people live in Djibouti).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Djibouti uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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