Country size comparison

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Malawi is around the same size as Alabama.

Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 90.15% the size of Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (16.0 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alabama vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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