Country size comparison

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Kentucky is around the same size as Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 86.84% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (16.5 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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