Hong Kong is about 1,119 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, making Hong Kong 0.09% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~25.2 million people (17.7 million fewer people live in Hong Kong).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Hong Kong uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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