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 ~20.8 million people (14.2 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. El Salvador uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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