Country size comparison

compared to

Ireland is about 18 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 5.67% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (15.5 million fewer people live in Ireland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Ireland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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