Country size comparison

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Kuwait is about 7 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 15.04% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (17.7 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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