Country size comparison

compared to

Italy is around the same size as Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 91.36% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~33.9 million people (27.2 million more people live in Italy).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Italy uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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