Malawi is about 9 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 11.5% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (16.6 million more people live in Malawi).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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