Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 3.7 times smaller than Iraq.

Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 27.03% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (19.7 million fewer people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iraq vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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