Country size comparison

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Indonesia is about 16 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, making Indonesia 1,507% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (256.5 million more people live in Indonesia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Indonesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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