Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 9 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 10.73% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (92.9 million fewer people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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