Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 15 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 6.73% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (13.7 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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