Country size comparison

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Libya is about 15 times bigger than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, making Libya 1,385% larger than Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~20.8 million people (13.7 million fewer people live in Libya).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Libya uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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