Country size comparison

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Gambia is about 10 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 9.54% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (18.4 million fewer people live in Gambia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Gambia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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