Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 3.2 times smaller than Japan.

Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 31.35% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~123.4 million people (101.2 million fewer people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Japan vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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