Country size comparison

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Malawi is around the same size as Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, making Malawi 90.88% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (14.5 million more people live in Malawi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Malawi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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