Israel is about 5 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Israel is approximately 21,937 sq km, making Israel 18.51% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~22.2 million people (12.1 million fewer people live in Israel).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Israel uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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