Country size comparison

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Italy is about 4.1 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 24.3% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (40.4 million more people live in Italy).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Italy uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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