Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 12 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 8.31% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (20.4 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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