Country size comparison
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Malawi is about 3.4 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 29.34% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (16.5 million fewer people live in Malawi).
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