Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 1.2 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 81.88% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (17.7 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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