Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 18 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 1,728% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (20.7 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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