Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 4.9 times smaller than Kenya.

Kenya is approximately 580,367 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 20.42% the size of Kenya. Meanwhile, the population of Kenya is ~57.5 million people (35.3 million fewer people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kenya vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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