Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 1.8 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 54.51% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (19.0 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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