Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 2 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 50.04% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (13.0 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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