Country size comparison

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Finland is about 2.9 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Finland is approximately 338,145 sq km, making Finland 185% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (15.2 million fewer people live in Finland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Finland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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