Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 4.9 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 20.37% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (18.4 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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