Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 14 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 7.19% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (66.0 million fewer people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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