Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 1.2 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 82.3% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (8.0 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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