Country size comparison

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Ethiopia is about 9 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, making Ethiopia 832% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (92.9 million more people live in Ethiopia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Ethiopia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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