Country size comparison

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Japan is about 3.2 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 219% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (103.4 million more people live in Japan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Japan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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