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