Country size comparison

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France is about 4.7 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 365% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (47.5 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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