Country size comparison

compared to

Italy is about 1.9 times smaller than Madagascar.

Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 51.33% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (32.9 million more people live in Italy).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Madagascar vs. Italy uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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