Country size comparison

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Malawi is about 2.3 times smaller than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 44.07% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (15.7 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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