Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 5 times smaller than Malaysia.

Malaysia is approximately 329,847 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 19.58% the size of Malaysia. Meanwhile, the population of Malaysia is ~36.0 million people (34.1 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malaysia vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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