Country size comparison

compared to

Kuwait is about 19 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 5.4% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~36.0 million people (31.1 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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