Country size comparison
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El Salvador is about 6 times smaller than Malawi.
Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 17.76% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~22.2 million people (15.9 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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