Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 4.7 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 21.48% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (47.5 million fewer people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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