Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Malawi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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